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Originally Posted by charcoalandpencil
although it may help because people are on the same boat, i found from my personal experience of year and a half using sbi forum that they are not as broadly knowledgeable as ppl here and often give wrong advices. For example one of sbi coach told me i cant use keywords on painting for my drawing site or vice versa because its irrelevant and will cause my site to do badly on SEs and confuse them, whereas here, ppl knew better that you CAN use painting related keywords on drawing, and you can still do well on SEs on both painting AND drawing keywords as long as there are enough good contents on both. and that sbi coachs advice have slowed me down a bit. i think maybe because ppl there have just been trained with sbi and doesnt have as broader knowledge
Also from my personal experience sbi forums doesnt respond very well as here.
thats why i use this forum now instead of sbi, even for my sbi questions, but i did get a lot of help from sbi forum nonetheless and am very thankful.
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The SBI Forums serve a different purpose. I find it much better for technical advice - 'how do I set a time and date for my mailout' for example.
Not sure about keyword advice - perhaps they read it differently to how you intended; with regards to the whole SBI learning experience I say
stick to the Action Guide like a leach until you get to Days 7/8 and then begin to put your head about the parapet a little and get some alternative advice. The internet is an incredibly 'noisy' place and you could so easily become overwhelmed - but equally the Action Guide could 'numb' peoples potential since they maybe don't know that they COULD try out ideas in different places.
It's kind of funny though that I've found this forum where there seems to be lovely, productive balanced conversation. I've been blitzing DigitalPoint over the last few days - there is an unbeleiveable amount of trash over there! I've found myself almost 'preaching' - and yet I've stuck almost exclusively to the Link Development sub-forum. It's draining!
Getting diversified advice is important - so whilst you may feel comfortable here; "feeling comfortable" may not necessarily give you the oppurtunity to test ideas and try new stuff out. Can you afford NOT to participate in the SBI forums, DigitalPoint etc?